Journées de l'Architecture 2024: fun and creative workshops at the Musée des Plans-Reliefs

Autumn in Paris is not all rest and relaxation: events and meetings follow one another without respite, much to our delight. After the Fête de la Science, the Art Basel fair and the Monument Jeu d'Enfant event, it's now the turn of the Journées nationales de l'Architecture to introduce us to new horizons.

Journées Nationales de l'Architecture 2024: date, program and theme of the Paris event
The Journées nationales de l'Architecture are back from October 18 to 20, 2024, in Paris and the Île-de-France region. A weekend-long opportunity to visit unusual and historic sites, and to take part in workshops and meetings with architects. [Read more]

For its 9th edition, this cultural event will take place from October 18 to 20, 2024 in Paris and the Île-de-France region. Dozens of museums, schools, heritage sites and places of interest will be organizing special tours and events. The aim: to highlightarchitecture, its treasures, its professions and its importance, through encounters and workshops designed for the general public.

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The Musée des Plans-Reliefs, housed in the Hôtel National des Invalides in the 7th arrondissement, is once again taking part in the Journées de l'Architecture. For the occasion, the museum welcomes curious young and old alike, for a day of fun and educational discoveries. This Saturday, October 19, 2024, join in the special activities. Here's the program for the day.

On the program for the Journées de l'Architecture at the Musée des Plans-Reliefs:

• Family workshop "At the time of the citadels"
  Discover relief maps during a guided tour of the museum.
  Discover the history and purpose of plan-reliefs, historical models of fortified towns. After a presentation of the collection and an introduction to bastioned fortifications in front of the models, children build a small model of a bastioned front. This workshop introduces them to the shapes, vocabulary and design of fortifications in the era of Louis XIV and Vauban. Children leave with their own creation!
  Saturday October 19, 10:30 am
  Registration required (workshop free) via pedagogie.plans-reliefs@culture.gouv.fr or 06 61 71 11 69

An activity that could well create vocations among children!